Oar rest



Nov. 22, 1955 R. M. STUART 2,724,131

OAR REST Filed May 25, 1953 [N V 1::N TOR. .M/Z/Xmd la X4 United States Patent OAR REST Robert M. Stuart, Springfield, Mass., assignor to Trevor A. Baker, Palmer, Mass;

Application May 25, 1953, Serial No. 357,177

1 Claim. (Cl. 9-1) My invention relates to improvements in an adjustable oar rest and is directed more particularly to the provision of means whereby oars of a boat may be kept out of water and the dropping of water from the oars into the interior of the boat may be avoided.

As a special feature of the invention, the structure is easily adapted to be removably clamped to the gunwale of a boat at any desired position along its length, it being adapted for use in connection with row boats and other types of water craft employing oars.

It is also an object of my invention to provide a structure of the class described which is supported in an effective manner so as to support the load of the oar resting thereon.

All of the above objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangements of parts thereof, as will fully appear by a perusal of the description below and by various specific features which will be hereinafter set forth.

To the above cited and other ends and with the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of my invention as will become more readily apparent as the description proceeds, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed out in the claim hereunto annexed and more fully described and referred to in connection with the accompanying drawings where- Fig. 1 is a small scale top plan view of a boat showing the device of my invention in association therewith;

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the device embodying the novel features of my invention; and

Fig. 3 is an end elevational view of the device shown in Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail, the invention will be fully described.

My improved device is generally designated by D and is formed of a body member 6 which is preferably formed by casting same in metal and is so shaped as to have a body supporting section comprising a pair of spaced downwardly depending arms 8 and 10 cooperating to form an inverted U-shaped recess whereby the body 6 is receivable over the gunwale G of a boat generally designated by B in Fig. 1. The surface of the connecting wall member 12 between the arms 8 and 10 of the body member 6 resting upon the gunwale, the inner opposed faces 9 and 11 of the arms 8 and 10 being disposed on opposite sides of the gunwale.

The arm 8 is provided with a boss 8 having a transverse threaded opening 14 centrally thereof in which a screw 16 is threaded. The rearward outer end of the screw 16 has a finger grip 18 fixed thereto adapting the screw to be rotated relative to the arm 8 toward and away from the arm 10.

At the opposite forward and inner end of the screw, a plate member 20 is secured in any well known manner for swirling movement relative thereto. The plate may be secured by a universal joint or similar ball and socket arrangement adapting the device to gunwales having nonparallel outer and inner sides as is frequently the case in boat constructions.

The device is adapted to be clamped in position on the gunwale of a boat between the inner face 11 and the plate 20 by adjusting the screw 16 and by rotating same in a tightening manner so that the body 6 is clamped to the gunwale.

Extending upwardly from and at one side of the body 6 is an upwardly facing oar supporting section substantially U-shaped in form comprising spaced arms 22 and 24 connected by a lower midsection 26 substantially as shown in Fig. 2.

With the device clamped to the gunwale of a boat, the oar O which is held in fixed or releasable pivotal relation to the boat by means of the oar lock L can be readily maintained or supported in a non-operating position.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claim rather than by the foregoing description, and all modifications and variations as fall within the meaning and purview and range of equivalency of the appended claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A rest for supporting from the gunwale of a boat the blade end of an oar having a handle end in an oarlock on said gunwale at a distance from said rest comprising, a one-piece unitary body formed from metal to have an upper pair and a lower pair of inner and outer horizontal- 1y spaced side arms having inner connected together portions, said pairs of upper and lower side arms extending vertically upwardly and downwardly from said connected together portions providing an open upper U for the blade of an oar and a lower open U inverted and immovable relative to said upper U for resting on the gunwale of a boat, said side arms forming said Us being in the same plane and the inner side arms of the pairs thereof being in substantial vertical alignment whereby said upper and lower Us are offset horizontally relative to one another, and a clamp screw in transverse threaded engagement with the inner side arm of the lower U for engaging a side of a gunwale in said U.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 588,455 Lofberg et a1. Aug. 17, 1897 1,185,178 Cella May 30, 1916 2,236,070 Rohrdanz Mar. 25, 1941 2,476,116 Scheckel July 12, 1949 FOREIGN PATENTS 138,707 Sweden Jan. 7, 1953 2,724,131 Patented Nov. 22, 1955 

